The Devil Wears Prada Quotes We Try And Use At Least Once A Day

On Meryl Streep's birthday, we run down the best quotes from the ultimate fash film - complete with GIFs

It's definitely hard to believe that it has been a whole NINE years since The Devil Wears Prada hit the big screen - and the rest is history. It was the start of Anne Hathaway’s grown-up career (while The Princess Diaries is a cinematic classic, she’s spoke tirelessly about being more than Mia Thermopolis), it reaffirmed our love for Meryl Streep, AND it shot Emily Blunt to fame.

While she was a relative unknown in comparison to the film’s leading ladies, Emily cemented her on-screen presence by having to speak some of the movie’s most infamous lines, which remain some of our favourite Devil Wears Prada quotes to this day.

The 32-year-old actress revealed that one of the best one liners from the flick wasn’t written in the script, but was something she overheard from a very unlikely source… an irritable mum shopping in a supermarket.

In an interview on Howard Stern's Sirius program she said: ‘I like to soak up people on the street. I guess I steal from people I meet. Like, I saw a mother speaking to her child in a supermarket when we were shooting that film. And it’s a line that gets quoted back to me now. She yelled at her kid and she kind of opened and closed her hand and she goes [in harsh American accent], “Yeah, I’m hearing this, and I want to hear this.” I went and put it in a movie, when Anne Hathaway is kind of talking to me, and I just told her that [to make her shut up].’

And here’s that now iconic moment in all its glory…

So, to honour the gloriousness that is the ultimate fashion film, we’ve whittled down our favourite Devil Wears Prada quotes ever. Take it away, Em!

1. ‘I’m sorry, do you have some prior commitment? Some hideous skirt convention you have to go to?’ Emily Chalton (played by Emily Blunt)

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